Oil bear market amid pyrrhic victories

04/07/2017

Following last week's selloff, oil prices hit a two-week high on Thursday, after the EIA data showed that USA weekly crude oil production dropped to 9.250 million bpd in the week to June 23, from 9.350 million bpd the previous week.

July is usually a big month for drawdowns: Over the last five years, inventories of crude oil have dropped by an average of 2.9 million barrels per week in July, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. A plunge in oil prices sent WTI and Brent, the global benchmark, into bear markets last week.

"This leaves us cyclically bullish within a structurally bearish framework: then near-term price risks are now increasingly skewed to the upside while the low velocity de?ationary forces of the New Oil Order are still at play", Goldman analysts wrote.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch forecast that U.S. crude oil prices would average $47 per barrel in 2017-compared to previous estimates of $52 per barrel.

Weekly August West Texas Intermediate Crude Oil

Brent crude raised $ 2.29 to $ 56.62 a barrel. Meanwhile, the United States rig count fell last week for the first time in about five months.

Since plunging to an all-time low of 404 in May a year ago, rig counts have generally been rising over the past 12 months, with the addition of a flood of new units due to the rapid growth in American shale production.

The U.S. dollar.DXY fell to its lowest since October in early trading on Friday, giving investors an incentive to buy dollar-denominated commodities such as crude oil. Robust appetite from Japanese and South Korean buyers could help soak up excess supplies. "We view this market structure as a "terminal stylized oil forward", the study said.

"To put that in context, that is almost a quarter of the 1.2 million barrels (per day) OPEC agreed to cut", said Greg McKenna, chief market strategist at AxiTrader. Goldman said it is also getting a little late in the game to hope for inventories to balance by the end of the OPEC compliance period in March 2018. According to figures released by the Venezuela Ministry of Petroleum and Mining, the average price of Venezuelan crude sold by Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) during the week ending June 30 rose to $39.95, up 72 cents from the previous week's $39.23. In addition, Libya and Nigeria, two OPEC members exempted from the curbs, have increased output although not by enough to alter the overall picture of lower OPEC output in the six-month period.

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